Sentences with phrase «affairs select»

Yvette Cooper, UK Labor MP and chairwoman of the home affairs select committee, told The Times:

However, the Wales Bill, which is seeking to implement these changes, has been the subject of heavy criticism from the Welsh Affairs Select Committee and Welsh government and so when these changes will come into effect is uncertain.

Interestingly, however, the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee in its report Family Justice: the Operation of the Family Courts Revisited found no widespread crisis of confidence in the family courts but still recommended making family proceedings more open.

Despite this, the government's 50 - page response, published on 22 June, rejected all the criticisms and promised that the reforms would go ahead as planned (see Implementing Legal Aid Reform: Government Response to the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee Report, Cm 7158).

In a letter to the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, Lord Judge said such cases would be tried by a judge selected, on a case - by - case basis, by the resident judge and approved by a presiding judge.

Last Friday, 22 June, the government issued a 51 - page document entitled Implementing Legal Aid Reform: Government Response to the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee Report (Cm 7158).

In its response to a recent Constitutional Affairs Select Committee report — Implementation of the Carter Review of Legal Aid, which attacked many of the proposals for reform and warned the government to slow down implementation — the government says it will stand firm on its reform programme.

The Parliamentary Constitutional Affairs Select Committee (the committee) observed that «the [AG's] responsibility for prosecutions has emerged as one of the most problematic aspects of his or her role».

Amjid Jabbar, Partner at Stokoe Partnership Solicitors, comments in The Law Society Gazette following the recent Home Affairs select committee report on confiscation orders and recovering the proceeds of crime.

Lawson was a member of the House of Lords Economic Affairs Select Committee when it launched a skeptical report on climate change released to coincide with the 2005 G8 conference.

On the 24th October Dog World published a report on a meeting of the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs Select Committee to which Professor Steve Dean, Chairman of the Kennel Club, had been called to answer questions about the KC's views on registration of what may be considered «unhealthy» dogs.

Chairman of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee since 2010.

The publication of the letter came as the home secretary prepared to face Parliament again on Monday, this time to explain why she appeared to mislead the home affairs select committee last week by denying any knowledge of targets.

«I have asked officials to provide me with a full picture of performance measurement tools which are used at all levels and will update the House and Home Affairs Select Committee as soon as possible.»

«When you addressed the House of Commons and the Home Affairs Select Committee last week on the issue of illegal immigration, you answered the questions put to you in good faith,» she wrote.

The Commons Home Affairs Select Committee chair Keith Vaz said: «The evidence of Assistant Commissioner John Yates today raised a number questions of importance about the law on phone - hacking, the way the police deal with such breaches of the law and the manner in which victims are informed of those breaches,» he said.

Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesman, Tom Brake MP, who sits on the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, says: «Clearly people will be shocked to find out that # 8.5 has been spent by police forces around the country to obtain data they need from the mobile phone companies.

It spelled out that there were both national and regional targets for deportations of illegal immigrants - seemingly contradicting the evidence Ms Rudd gave to the Home Affairs select committee a day earlier.

But Mr Ind texted Ms Rudd's team during and after her ill - fated appearance in front of the Home Affairs Select Committee to say deportation targets are not used.

Her humiliating admission in the Commons came less than 24 hours after the Home Affairs Select Committee was told by a union official the targets have been used since 2014.

Mr Coulson's political enemies were refused a Privileges Committee investigation yesterday but got a Home Affairs Select Committee investigation into phone hacking... and «Police to quiz top Cameron aide» headlines (Yates said he'd probably be chatting to Coulson in some capacity) so in a slight news vacuum the story is guaranteed another appearance in the papers.

Labour MPs Chuka Umunna, Caroline Flint and Yvette Cooper are going head - to - head for chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, which was vacated by Keith Vaz after he was accused of using male prostitutes.

On Monday, Corbyn will be questioned by the home affairs select committee over allegations of antisemitism within the Labour party.

Ms Moreton, who appeared in front of the Home Affairs Select Committee before Ms Rudd, later told the channel: «It's inevitable that the Home Secretary will not know the details of every single small piece of targeting, but nonetheless there are targets for removals: last year's target was 8,337 nationally.»

The Home Affairs Select Committee will today take evidence on the Stephen Lawrence Independent Review from Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan - Howe.

The latest revelation will likely spark further probes into what Ms Rudd knew, after she told the Home Affairs Select Committee on Wednesday that such targets did not exist and were not part of how the department operates.

I plan to write to the Home Secretary and the Home Affairs Select Committee to ask for their assessment of the situation, and for a review of whether the act is working as intended.»

In the 2001 parliament, Mole served as a member of the Select Committee that scrutinised the work of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Deregulation and Regulatory Affairs Select Committee and the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments.

He stood down from the front bench in 1987 and thereafter served on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, devoting himself to European Union questions.

The chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee said that if there had been «a thorough investigation of the facts» those involved in phone hacking could have been dealt with earlier.

He also chaired the Home Affairs Select Committee and was a member of the Parliamentary Committee, giving him direct access to the court of Tony Blair.

I'm grateful to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee for inviting me to give evidence on this crucial issue.

He told the committee on Tuesday: «Clearly there is a lot of concern about the preparation for the home affairs select committee hearing; concern about events during the hearing, and after the hearing.

Ian Marsh has hailed Select Committees as a «newly emboldened» and «empowered system», BBC Parliamentary correspondent Mark d'Arcy described the post-Wright SC system as «more powerful and independent - minded than ever before», and Sir Richard Ottaway, former Chair of Foreign Affairs Select Committee, said that the 2010 — 2015 Parliament would be remembered as «the Parliament of the Select Committee».

Today The home affairs select committee publishes their report on the work of the Home Office permanent secretary

The Welsh Affairs Select Committee (or simply the «Welsh Affairs Committee») is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

She was is a member of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee, the Procedure Committee and the European Scrutiny Committee.

The change was acknowledge in a letter submitted to MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee who are today investigating the meeting and the case for misconduct.

He was current member of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee and was previously the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Margaret Curran.

The Foreign Affairs Select Committee has decided by a majority vote that they do not support the Prime Minister on proposed airstrikes against the so - called Islamic State in Syria, ITV News understands.

On entering Parliament in 2001, Mr Cameron rose rapidly through the ranks, serving first on the Home Affairs Select Committee, which recommended the liberalisation of drug laws.

She first elected as MP for East Lothian in 2010 and was as a member of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee.

As an MP he was a member of the Regulatory Reform Committee, the Unopposed Bills (panel) Committee, the Scottish Affairs Committee and the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee.

She told the Home Affairs Select Committee this afternoon that it was «quite wrong» of West Mercia Police not to take disciplinary proceedings against the three officers.

Mr Mahmood's criticism was echoed by Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, who said: «I don't think this is a cultural problem... I don't think you can stereotype an entire community.»

May had always been more reluctant to embrace the idea, including when before the home affairs select committee last week.

On Syria, Mr Corbyn's long - held opposition to air strikes has now been endorsed by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.

Mr Williams was appointed to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee in 2005 before becoming the Liberal Democrat spokesman for Wales, and at varying times has been spokesman on schools and higher education.

The home affairs select committee accuses Labour of incompetence in dealing with antisemitism and helping to create a safe space for people with «vile attitudes towards Jewish people».

Yesterday, he spoke in the debate as a newly elected member of the home affairs select committee: